idiostatic
Electricity
adjective
(Of an electrostatic voltmeter) that does not use an auxiliary voltage in the measurement of a voltage; opposed to heterostatic.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in William Thomson (1819–1890), archbishop of York.
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